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Originally Posted by djchameleon
Well that's nice that when you joined it wasn't a bitchfest but when I joined new members got ripped apart way more than they do now. Insults were thrown around like crazy by mods and members alike and there was just the same amount of clique like behavior as it is now just that it included different members. You either grew a tough skin or you run away. I actually couldn't take it for a bit and ended up stop posting until I got used to the abuse. We are extremely welcoming to new members than we were in the past so I don't see why people keep bringing that up. The amount of welcomes that new members get in their intro threads is pretty good actually. The fact that new members don't stay is that they probably feel like the music they listen to isn't discussed here or there isn't much music discussion going on.
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It was to some extent when I joined as well, I remember my first ever post was in the Tool thread and I got completely shut down by a bunch of people making fun of Tool fans and commenting "Now I know why I hate Tool fans" etc. But I figured that was pretty normal for an Internet forum, I stuck around anyway because I liked the discussion about music.
I don't really think it's about how welcoming we are to new members, I think it's more about the fact that while new members feel quite welcomed, after a few months they tend to leave due to not being stimulated by the music discussion (perhaps, this is an assumption). I still feel as though a LOT of threads tend to go completely off-topic with members posting one-word answers or stupid frivolous stuff or stupid pointless GIFs that doesn't bring anything to the discussion... at least dj when members like yourself reply to threads you are bringing something valuable to the discussion, rather than some off-topic bull**** that noone understands because it's some inside joke between "BFFs zomg let's use musicbanter forums as our personal chat channel" IYKWIM...